World Mental Health Day should be dedicated to focusing on mental health. But the supposed custodians of mental health, psychiatrists, are actually the custodians of the exact opposite. Psychiatrists are selling sickness to the worried well. ‘Disease-Mongering’ is a term defined as “the act of convincing essentially well people that they are…
When giving testimony in court, it’s common to find defence and prosecution psychiatrists in conflict about the mental status of the person in question. Unlike medical doctors, they often come to differing conclusions, exemplifying the opinion-fuelled, unscientific structure of psychiatric testimonies. Two tragic cases demonstrate this conflict. It has been reported that…
Whether it relates to children, adolescents, adults or the elderly, there has been a constant stream of news stories in recent times referring to mental health. Any reference however to mental health has been inverted. The pessimistic narratives in the stories often relate to the difficulties experienced by people during these difficult…